Fast And Furious Showdown: worst Wii U game of 2013? [VIDEO]

The latest Fast and Furious movie is making a killing at the box office, and in true Hollywood fashion, there’s a game to accompany the movie and squeeze a few more bucks out any sucker out there. Fast and Furious Showdown has been panned by game critics as one of the worst games this year. It’s out now on the PS3, Xbox 360, and unfortunately, the Wii U as well. Take a look at the video above and see just what passes off as a “video game” these days. Awful cut scenes, awful dialogue, awful gameplay. Looks like it was built with a game engine straight out of North Korea…

Its looks like one of those shit games you get for a $0.50 at the supermarket.

Tecpedz94

It looks like one of those games you get free inside cereals boxes. I once got roller coaster tycoon in it when i was younger best purchase of cereals

Nintyfan

Even those games are better than this shit. Lol

Nintedward

It has IOS graphics lol. The funny thing is the game is EXACTLY the same on 3DS , albeit lower resolution and in 3D.

It looks terrible even for a 3DS game.

jay

I was thinking Indie iOS graphics.

Like those indie devs on iOS that try to make you think their games legit. Crime City/Modern War etc

Eric Degrechie

Activision also made that boring Walking Dead game that is also on the Wii U. These games are making the Wii U look worse. Luckily, they dodged a bullet on Aliens Colonial Marines.

thedeciderU

yeah, but the walking dead was a multi-platform release too. i have to admit i’m kind of glad aliens did not come to wii u. just one more thing for people to bitch about haha

Kyle Berger

it looks fun in the beginning driving part but that’s all that I saw. the game looks pretty crappy though.

Josiah Parsons

*smirks sheepishly*
it does actually look kind of fun. just don’t buy it.

http://www.linux-guides.com/ Je Saist

Eesh. The cut scene graphics at first weren’t actually that bad… then the actual game loaded… Actually, to be fair, the graphics during a race are significantly better than what the PS1 could achieve. Reminded me a bit more of Dreamcast / NAOMI level graphics or early Playstation 2 graphics.

thedeciderU

agree, people fail to remember how rough most ps1 graphics look. i don’t care though, i have silent hill and other classics in my collection!

Frank

This wouldn’t even be passable on the SNES with the super fx 2 chip! it’s that bad

the physics is actually highly realistic if you assume that everything is filled with helium.

Morits Lian

One can not explain how accurate this is.

darkstar18

lol

http://twitter.com/Jamie_Clabon Jamie Clabon

Actually, in fast and furious, the over use of green house gases from the cars have caused humans to evolve into bird men

thedeciderU

the physics look like cruisin’ usa on N64

Morits Lian

Nailed it.

sdmac200600

lol activision, as much as I can’t stand EA, let them stick to making the racing games please.

ItzameyaToad

I agree Activision should stick to making Call of Duty and other ip’s they have there greedy hands on (Crash Bandicoot, I believe Spyro etc.)

uPadWatcher

Best choice of options: Either buy Need for Speed: Most Wanted U or wait for Mario Kart U and/or Project CARS.

D.M.T

The two options for us Wii U owners are Sonic All Star Racing and Project CARS.

Wii U owners should stay away from EA games. It’s sad because I wanted to buy Most Wanted U but EA are talking too much shit about Wii U

DWraySweZ

thats the truth… i wont even play the new star wars games when they arereleased on Wii U cause they are made by EA… and thats going to suck cause, i want to support wii u and star wars but not EA.

Mario

But Disney is working on that game as well. Right? I mean, even if EA is a bad company in my eyes, Disney isn’t. I would get the game to support Disney. Not EA. (Even if means giving them cash they don’t deserve. And by “they” I mean EA. Again).

Shaun Kessel

and mario kart

Frank

This game make Sonic R look like a masterpiece; and that game has headache-inducing graphics, poor controls, and non-racing music.

Frank

bad comparison?

Arthur Jarret

Tails doll downvoted you. Stay awake tonight.

darkstar18

lol just buy the game used they wont make any money from that right?

D.M.T

You’re right!!! I will buy it used

Ben Kapferer

This would also be a good opportunity for that WiiKey U once it comes out, if you really wanted to spite EA.

Nintedward

I sold my copies of ME3 and NFSMWU :/ as soon as they started with their horrifically unprofessional attitude.

Richard Yates

Thats a shame criterion made a fun game for us. pesky EA……destroyed CnC they did…poor westwood studios.

thedeciderU

was NFSMWU good? i’ve heard mostly good things about it, but just can’t get myself to buy it. just got RE: Revelations (instead) on wii u and enjoying it. raid mode is pretty awesome too.

val berger

It’s a great game and that should be more important for gamers. If EA suddenly starts releasing only really good games, then they would’ve earned some support, no matter how they’re selling it. Of course there are a bunch of idiots leading that company, but apart from that, Criterion is an amazing studio that has earned some support and not buying a game like this won’t really change this whole situation for the better but making it worse.

teknik1200

Considering EA is on the move to eliminate used game sales buying used would be advisable!

That’s my plan and in the mean time I’ll be hunting monsters.

jay

Mario Kart is a baby gaeme so I’ll go with NFS.

NFS is tough and will get me laid…. even though females prefer Mario Kart…..

I don’t know if that’s sarcastic, but Mario kart is definitely not a baby game. I know 50 year old men who play that game on the original Wii in their spare time.

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Well, you could have read The Clockwork Being’s comment, since that’s been there for 4 hours.

Dmitry Bachilo

I don’t see it in eShop, is it out in Europe as well or just USA? Maybe we’ll dodge the bullet after all :-)))

dr scoobie

nintendo has standards…

Johny

nothing new… 90% of games made after movies straight SUCK

Streakin-Cobra

except for spiderman excluding 3 kinda

darkstar18

true

jay

Back in the SNES days movie games were awesome!!

Aladdin, Jurassic Park, The Lion King…

Jon

lol…wut?

JB

What the…?? Oh this is so, so sad. There are iOS and Android games that look tons better than this piece of garbage. I hope the poor soul who uploaded this video was able to get a refund…

Nintedward

lol. This is why I nerd out and read reviews and do research before dropping cash on games! That way I’m very very rarely disapointed.

I’m not one of those D-bags who thinks anything less than a 9/10 is a bad score lol.

JB

Right! I do the same thing… Well unless it’s a Zelda or Mario. Those are instabuys naturally!

Nintedward

Yeah , certain franchises merit an auto purchase. For example when Mario tennis open was getting crappy reviews like 5’s and 6’s I bought it and low and behold , loved it!

ItzameyaToad

Yeah… not sure why people still buy licensed movie games especially from Activision the second worst company when it comes to innovation. I say rent movie games cause there are a few diamonds in the ruff but don’t expect an apology/refund if you buy it full price.

JB

Exactly! Though I can’t think of one licensed movie game that has been even remotely good, save Goldeneye (which still holds up as an extremely fun game even to this day)

ItzameyaToad

Yeah there are only a few licensed movie titles that I have played, the Lord of the Ring’s games on PS2 where actually kind of good back when I played them. But yeah ia agree the only really good Movie licensed game is Goldeneye. Speaking of Goldeneye you might find this vid of the Game Grumps on Youtube interesting http://youtu.be/t70l-9n1rCQ

They have ex-Rare music composer Grant Kirkhope on and he talks about his work on Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie series etc. Really pretty interesting, and funny.

Kyle Berger

GOLDENEYE!!!!!!!!!!

ancientgamer

no way a game based on a movie was crap alert the media……..

Shaise Mughal

Could it be? Maybe LJN is back! That developer who used to make movie video games on the NES, according to AVGN, all their movie adaptions were awful, maybe they’re here in disguise as Activison!

http://nintendopapercraftvideos.wordpress.com/ Sam

Thumbs down.

Glovechicken

It’s funny how your car doesn’t even flinch when it crashes into the other cars. Are they made out of aluminium or something?!

Sidney Majurie

Dreamcast… is that you?

thedeciderU

tokyo extreme racer was a good game.

Sidney Majurie

Yep and it looks and plays better than this crud

john

Looks like a low-end PS2 game.

dr scoobie

what the hell are those cars made out of?!?
polystyrene?

Kyle Berger

hey look another chemist!

Nintendofreak

this game is so bad that it almost like EA made it

Josiah Parsons

ooh. burn.

Joseph Parsons

LOOK LIKE THAT ON MY PS3 TO . Fast and Furious Showdown JUST LOOK LIKE SHIT

https://www.facebook.com/BlueLightningTechnicalServices Bob Wilkerson

From what I have seen it is not only bad looking but the whole gameplay is bad too on top of a pretty horrid storyline/objective

Did anyone expect this game to be good?? If was Activision I would be embarrassed to have my name on this game..

Micks610

HOLY CRAP!!!
Dees Graphics!!! I wanna get it ASAP!!!!
-Said no one ever.

Mario

No offense, but this game looks a bit unrealistic to be on consoles like this one. It doesn’t even have good graphics at all! I seen games more realistic then that!

Nikko Ybanez

Like Super Mario 64?

Mario

True. But it did have good gameplay.

Nikko Ybanez

Sonic 06 also had good gameplay! At least, compared to this game.

Mario

True. Although, I never played the game. But the gameplay did look good on the videos I saw in Youtube.

FlyingBoat

never even heard of this game. maybe its skipping aus. horah!

Nikko Ybanez

….I saw the first 3.5 minutes of this game and paused…. seriously, what the fuck? Looks like a game for N64, Xbox, and PS1, not Wii U, Xbox 360, and PS3! And the controls look as simple as creating a hoverboard.

ancientgamer

to kinda quote homer simpson its the worst game of 2013 so far

H8ersBH8n

In the words of Bill from Left 4 Dead, “WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT”….

Dez

What the hell did I just see!?

@disqus_pZ3Nj2eriW:disqus Disney makes plenty of money as is, trust me their gaming division is a joke and just an afterthought. You’d think with Bill Roper in charge that they might make quality products, but it is obvious Disney doesn’t give a damn about gaming, they haven’t invested anything or tried to develop a game seriously. Epic Mickey was the last thing they did and it was plagued by terrible issues.

EA always publishes for whoever it can and if you cave and buy anything with an EA label, you are just encouraging EA to keep doing this crap. They’ve always released crap and always will. So long as someone wastes money on their crappy games, they’ll never change and keep exploiting the consumer. Their crappy sports games, their greed trashing decent games, etc. Not to mention EA has to treat their employees worse than anyone. Many small studios are barred from the industry be EA and if they get in, EA usually buys them and they are either a hit or a bust. EA will leave them swamped with debt if they are not instantly making a ton of money, not to mention EA always releases incomplete games.
EA is struggling financially at the moment and I say keep it up and make those bastards realize we aren’t going to take their crap anymore. Death to EA! I don’t even know what more I can say about this Fast and Furious game though, it is just plain retarded.

di g

man which one is worse this piece of shit or aliens colonial marines

Anthony Stewart

You mean worst game on any console in 2 years of looking at in reviews I’ve never seen them give a 2.5

Anthony Stewart

Ign not in

Nicolas Dorion

lol even too lazy to translate the english voice into french

NintendoNoob

This has only one good feature in the game. That’s being able to turn off your Wii U and burning the game

dylanbob121

why does 2013 have so many bad games?

http://clanzs.wix.com/zodiacslayers Stenaven

The North Korea part was kinda unnecessary.

00EpicGamer00

When the people were talking, it made me think of that block dude in “Bowser’s inside story” xD
Just when I thought Activision couldn’t possible get any worse….THIS HAPPENS.
Also “lol” to how the cars just fly up when you hit them xD

http://www.facebook.com/jadedoel Jade Doel

Looks like a Dreamcast game…

Nothing5555

No way I have a Dreamcast, Crazy Taxi looks better and is probably 100x more fun.

discuss

“This year will be the year of the games”

This looks like an EA game.

Frank

Pros- faithful to the source material, lots of cars, can tweak cars, you can change difficulty.

Cons- Outdated graphics, repetitive gameplay, awkward controls, sleep-inducing loading screens, awful modeling, terrible cut scenes and dialogue, you can advance regardless if you fail, some elements aren’t from the movie, physics are unrealistic. the list goes on and on
Verdict- Don’t buy, rent, loan, borrow, steal, or own this game in any way shape or form.

The Clockwork Being

LOOOOOL best verdict ever

Kyle Berger

…steal. who would steal this?

Frank

you’d be surprised, Me? I’d rather play GoldenEye on the N64, one of the few Movie games that’s actually GOOD!

Kyle Berger

I liked goldeneye on the Wii also. that game is amazing.

Frank

It’s not awful in any way, but it felt like a reimagining trying to regain lost glory; didn’t have that wow factor the N64 version did.

Bart Subelack

the Cruis’n series on the N64 even looks better!
Hell my own shit has a better taste than this

Gabe Hoffman

NFSMW>This godforsaken licensed turd of a game

Stephan

I love the fact that you’re the equivalent of Super Sonic on the road. Nearly indestructable and easy to lose control.

http://www.facebook.com/AJ.Fowl Andrew Chambers

Wow, give North Korea more credit. I’m sure that they just steal engines from other companies.

Is this a mobile game ported to consoles?

Mr. Hobo

Lol. The penalty for hitting a car is losing one kph.

Super Buu

This game makes my very soul tremble.

Nintyfan

Lol, worst cutscenes EVER.

Kamon

Looks like one of those EA games that used to come glued to your Rice Krispie cereal box.

edwincarp

I’m impressed. I thought graphics technology had come so far that developers could get away with poor quality games to some extent, but this game actually does remind me so much of a very poor quality 6th generation game.

wiiu4life

Why the hell does the title say Wii U and not worst game of 2013?

Christopher Coonan

I’m no graphics whore, but that is unacceptable for a retail console release these days.

brian murphy

the other game sucked too i figured this one would suck also cause i never heard anyone talk much about it and it suddenly appeared just like way of the dogg

malwoong

Hello Big Rigs!!!

fireheartis1

What is everybody complaining about? This game looks freaking awesome to the max. I love when modern games look a little retro it gives them a certain flavor of cool. I bought Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit on the Wii because I liked the cartoony retro graphics. I think I will be buying this game as well, and no I’m not trolling I’m actually serious about this game looks awesome.

http://twitter.com/Jamie_Clabon Jamie Clabon

This just proves that the PS1 won that console war. I mean, if people are still making games for it, then it must have won. Wait- this is new?

HypocritesRROD

Kinect sports is the worst Xbox(RROD) game ever. Waving your limbs around like a retarded person.

HypocritesRROD

Kinect Sports is the worst game in history. Waving your hands around like a crazy person. Kinect is retarded… RROD.

Arnold Stallone

Another great game that justifies the +400$ paid for the console. And this game is much better than the future gran turismo 6, of course.

MujuraNoKamen

What Activision releasing an unfinished, poorly made, uninspired cash-in!? Never!!!
They’re getting more like EA every day, let’s hope a few decent games make it through like their upcoming Crash Bandicoot Wii U game.

How do you manage to use franchise twice and spell it wrong only one time?

Dan

I don’t think I would go as far back as the PS1 generation, but this title definitely screams PS2 graphics- everything from how the people look in the cut scenes to the actual gameplay. Maybe this was originally intended for a PS2 release as well so they just developed for the lowest common denominator and ported it over for the current gen consoles??